I’ve read many times that letter shapes aren’t subject to copyright in the US (or, as far as I know, most other countries) but font names can be trademarked. That’s why you can get freeware knockoffs of a lot of popular fonts where everything but the name is identical to the real thing.
Elon undoubtedly has folders full of cool images he's saved, so while he was still focused on the "X" idea, he rummaged around and found that one and thought, "Yeah! This is gonna be sick dude!"
Thus are decisions made by the world's richest teenage edgelord.
Let me get this straight; you actually think Elon Musk, himself, combed through images he personally saved, found the X, and personally submitted it as the logo replacement.
Elon Musk. The crazy douche billionaire. You really think he sat at his computer and spent time doing that.
You don’t think, maybe, just maybe, a man with more money than God might have gotten someone else to do it? I can see him being out of touch and not caring enough about quality to say “go with that one” without checking where it came from. But I just can’t see Musk himself looking through fonts to find an “X” that he likes.
Thank you! I’ve been aware of this and was using it, but it quit working for me. There’s definitely a syntax error in the ‘Link’ button above the ‘reply’ text box. It doesn’t include the assclamation mark. But I’m thinking I manually followed your example, with the assclamation mark.
How long have you been using this, and have you experienced an interuption?
That’s not accurate. Copyright and trademark are two different things. The name “twitter” is also just a combination of preexisting characters and the word was probably in use before the company was founded. You can still trademark existing things because trademarks are about preventing consumer confusion, not protecting original creations.
Musk does have a problem with copyright if it turns out this specific design was made by someone else.
xcom is trademarked as a video game. There can be existing trademarks in different spaces. So you could easily get an xcom social media site trademarked.
I mean if Elon is going to push it, he has plenty of cash to invest into the company to buy out anything. He’s also not above just using his personal assets for the company. E.g. X.com now redirects to Twitter.com.
Thats true but anyway it doesnt make sense do trash a Brand that has becone verb, has its Logo on Millionen of Websites and is refered to by probably every news Website in existence. Imagine if McDonalds changed their golden M to a gray O.
Yeah… But maybe not ANYONE… “Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has already registered an ‘X’ logo in connection to ‘online social networking services’ and ‘social networking services in the fields of entertainment, gaming, and application development.’”
That’s too many letters though. I’m starting to think this imbecile is just tired of sounding out all seven letters multiple times a day. X is nice and simple, like him.
Sssshhh. You'll start a Wayland vs X flame war talking like that. And before you know it's the GNOME vs KDE, sysvinit vs systemd, and Emacs vs vi folk will show up. Or worse yet, Linux {{insert distro}} users vs other Linux{{insert distro}} users.
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